The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for August 30, 2021

It makes me look illiterate…..

Brutus’ device must be the same model I own

It’s 2021 and you still don’t have a smart phone.

You have to remember Brutus, your “smart” phone is only “smart” as the person using it!!

/SHMIRK/

I rely on me. If I’m not sure I refer to my dictionary.

AutoCorrupt. It takes one more stab at it and you after you hit send.

Pay attention and edit before you hit send

I had a Galaxy Note with the Stylus and hand writing recognition – I would watch in amazement as it correctly deciphered the scrawl of my hand writing and in horror as it would change it to a totally different word (eventually found the stupid option to always auto correct)

I think I know that feeling.

Owed to the Spell Checker

I have a spelling checker—

It came with my PC.

It plane lee marks four my revue

Miss steaks aye can knot sea.

Eye ran this poem threw it,

Your sure reel glad two no

It’s vary polished in it’s weigh,

My checker tolled me sew.

A checker is a bless sing,

It freeze yew lodes of thyme.

It helps me right awl stiles two reed,

And aides me when aye rime.

To rite with care is sure a feet

Of witch won should be proud.

And wee mussed dew the best wee can,

Sew flaws are knot aloud.

And now bee cause my spelling

Is checked with such grate flare,

Their are know faults with in my cite,

Of none eye am a wear.

Each frays come posed up on my screen

Eye trussed to bee a joule

The checker poured o’er every word

To cheque sum spelling rule.

that’s why aye brake in two averse

By righting wants too please.

Sow now ewe sea why aye dew prays

Such soft wear for pea seas!

Yesterday I was looking for a plumber to get a quote on some bathroom remodeling. I am so glad I checked my search before hitting enter. I almost entered a search for “roto-tooter”. I don’t even want to know what would have resulted from that query.

You might learn to read and write your language.

sounds like my families cellphones.

my phone is equipped with auto don’t give a damn…

I’m all thumbs when it comes to texting. I know how to spell the words but my thumbs don’t. If I don’t use my stylus mu tects wiuld be umresdablr.

Smart phones do tend to do that from time to time. That’s why you have to check your spelling before you sent messages.

My phone kept doing that and I finally figured out how to turn that feature off. There are still occasional misspellings, but nothing like before.

I’ve always referred to it as “autoblunder”.

I fully understand Brutus’s plight. My Cell Phone and Computer think they know me and what’s best for me at times. I can make my own mistakes just fine by myself, thank you. I don’t need any help doing it. Darn these new fangled inventions…..

Yeah, I mis-type a word once, and somehow Autocorrect thinks that’s the right word :-D

I resemble that remark!

Mine has "auto change the whole word " to something that makes no sense at all !… misspellings I could deal with!

I have the same problem with my comments. I do check it 2 or 3 times before I hit the button, but I come back later and cringe at what I posted. It changes the whole meaning when you leave out a ‘not’.

Mis spell them long enough and spell check thinks that is the correct spelling

Don’t worry Brutus, most of the people you would be sending text messages to probably can’t spell either. That is except for Veeblefester, but that’s OK because he has you on autodelete.

It makes the changes after you hit send. It does it in order to make you sound alliterate.

Depends on how much of a hurry I am to send the note/post.

My son gave me a smart phone for Christmas. I’m 70 and he said I wouldn’t be able to figure it out.. Well I call it a smart a$$ phone ;-) I am figuring it out little by little.

It’s not auto-correct. It’s auto-corrupt!